Voters polled fail to identify leaders in the Republican Party

If the republicans are going to emerge as a viable political party, they need a leader. On today’s front page of the USA Today an article shows the results of a recent poll. This poll was conducted to see who people thought the “Voice” of the Republican Party is. The results show Rush Limbaugh in 1st place with 13% of the vote, followed by Dick Cheney, John McCain, and Newt, 52% had no clue. I guess the Irony behind the results are the fact that despite the poll showing all of the leaders being, “Old White Balding Males”, as the article put it, in truth the leader of the RNC is a Younger (then them) African American Male.

After seeing the article featured on MSNBC, with both the anchors eating up every opportunity to criticize and get a laugh out of the reality of the RNC challenges, I figured it was important to shed some light on the matter. Yes there are Old Republicans, but in life older generally meets with wiser. When voters were polled during the 2008 Election, they overwhelmingly said that McCain had the Experience, but Barak Obama won on “Change”.

When it comes down to it, if you can’t win on your weaknesses you have to play to your strengths. The older Republicans should be using their experience in politics to turn things over on the media and the Democrats. It seems all too often the younger Republicans will not come forward and step up to be a voice, because they are afraid of the Obama Popularity and his following. Look at what happened with the Arlen Specter, he was so worried his district would switch parties, essentially because of the popularity of Obama, for which he has been a republican in for years, would switch on him. To save reelection he flopped parties.

In contrast to what the party IS doing, what they SHOULD be doing is playing to the real base that is out there. Many studies have been done to show that the Country, as a whole, is a Center Right country. Just look at the flip Abortion has done in the last year, more people now consider themselves Pro-Life than Pro-Choice. People WANT a leader that can compromise to get things done, that can cut spending without making it harder on Americans, and a leader that doesn’t make radical points just to get media attention.

Rush Limbaugh has not emerged as a “Voice for republicans” but as a “Voice for Liberals to Label Republicans with”. Rush IS the voice of talk radio, and he makes allot of good points, but sometimes he takes it a little too far, and when in the spotlight, that just leads to talking points on Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann Shows. Allot of people on the Right, and people that really understand Washington and Politics, understand rush, but be is alienating the Center Right people, because of controversial comments.

Bill O’reilly on Fox News has toned down somewhat lately and is a good voice for the older Generation, and Glenn Beck in the Afternoon is a good voice for Younger Republicans, but hardly anyone sees him because he is on at 5:00. I know my wife has become a big Glenn Beck fan because he really explains things in a down to earth straightforward laid out kind of way, a way that normal people can understand and say “Wow I never looked at the spending that way.” That is what Conservatives need more of, leaders that point out, in quick 2 minute economics lessons, the true consequences of Liberal Ideals.

Lastly I will conclude with a couple Videos from “10000Pennies” They are incredibly informative example on Jobs and the Stimulus plan, and how the Stimulus money is being spent.

This one is on the Budget cuts Obama Promised